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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 13:23:02 -0700
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On 4/6/24 12:42 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 4/6/2024 9:51 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> On 4/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> Yesterday, I got through a soap, and a Tubi movie!
>>
>> Prey for the Bride (Tubi) - A 2024 "Tubi original"!!
>>     This was OK, though I found it sort of unpleasant, especially 
>> earlier on.
>>     Really, based on the casting/premise, 
> 
> What's the premise?

Somebody is terrorizing a bachelorette party (in a remote summer 
mansion) based on a past secret/crime involving the bride-to-be's dead 
previous boyfriend(/fiance?).

There pretty much has to be an inside person on this - that really 
leaves only two possibilities: the geographically-separated 
maid-of-honor who is not part of the circle of other bachelorette 
friends, or the bride herself.

It was pretty obvious to me which one was the "inside" person (even the 
crediting order gives it away a little), though I was hoping through 
most of this that I was wrong. And the film does put a lot of effort 
into misdirection on this. But I still was pretty sure I was right about 
the identity of the "inside person"...

>> there really were only two
>> "twists" possible here, and unfortunately, they went for the more 
>> obvious, less interesting one.
>>     I did kind of appreciate the ending here, as it was kind of the 
>> only possible acceptable ending.
>>     This was filmed pretty well - much better than the average 
>> Lifetime flick. Tubi is only 720p, but I expect this flick would have 
>> looked quite good in 1080p, and maybe even in 4k.
>>     Aussie actress Megan Peta Hill is starting to look kind of old - 
>> she seemed to me to look noticably older than the rest of the cast 
>> (except maybe Jacky Lai). Even Google won't tell me Hill's age, but 
>> I've got to think she's in her mid-30s by now, and looks it.  [shrug]. 
>> Still, I like her, and wouldn't mind seeing some more of her over on 
>> this side of the Pacific (it looks to me like she's mostly relocated 
>> to the Western Hemisphere c. 2015 anyway...).
 >
> I watched:
> 
> 
> The First Omen (theatrical) New horror movie that is a direct prequel to 
> the 1976 "The Omen."  It is set in Rome in 1971 and tells the backstory 
> behind where "Damien" came from.  While it seems a bit of a retcon I 
> guess it can be said the movie is clarifying details that were only 
> guessed or assumed before.  But it does at least make it clear why/how 
> priests and nuns had Damien in the first place at the start of the 1976 
> movie and they knew *exactly* what they had and what they were doing.  I 
> also have the recommend the movie's very effective trailer that doesn't 
> spoil anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4xk8yLiFwM

OK, cool. I wasn't expecting an explicit direct "prequel" out of this. 
Knowing that, I may rewatch the original, and then watch this, this 
coming summer, if I am able...